UNITED STATES v. LAYTON

No. CR-80-416 RFP.

509 F.Supp. 212 (1981)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, v. Laurence John LAYTON, Defendant.

United States District Court, N. D. California.

March 6, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

G. William Hunter, U. S. Atty., Stanford Svetcov and Robert L. Dondero, Asst. U. S. Attys., San Francisco, Cal., for plaintiff United States of America.

James F. Hewitt, Federal Public Defender, Frank O. Bell, Jr., Chief Asst. Fed. Public Defender, Tony Tamburello, San Francisco, Cal., for defendant Laurence John Layton.


ORDER

PECKHAM, Chief Judge.

Laurence J. Layton, a.k.a. Larry Layton, has been indicted on four criminal counts arising from the events which occurred at the Port Kaituma airport in the nation of Guyana on November 18, 1978. Those events resulted in the death of Congressman Leo J. Ryan, then a member of the United States House of Representatives from the 11th Congressional District of California, and the wounding of Richard Dwyer, the Deputy Chief of Mission...

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